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>> stephen strasburg. >> who? >> we wanted to make history and meet stephen strasburg. >> reporter: meet stephen strasburg. a guy who hasn't played a single game in the big leagues but he can fill a stadium throwing warm-up pitches. these kids spent eight hours in the car just to catch a glimpse of him. is it worth it? >> oh, yeah. >> no doubt, huh? >> no doubt. this is awesome. >> reporter: strasburg's been called the greatest pitching prospect of all time. his autograph fetches nearly 200 bucks on ebay. his one of a kind rookie baseball card just sold for more than $16,000. you can get a babe ruth card for less. we went to see him play for the minor league syracuse chiefs. one last time to see him before he hits the big leagues. syracuse, new york, has had a professional baseball team since the mid-1800s and once hosted a minor leaguer named babe ruth. but strasburg's games have attracted the largest recorded crowds ever for professional baseball in this city. it's all about his fastball. the speed clock repeate
>> stephen strasburg. >> who? >> we wanted to make history and meet stephen strasburg. >> reporter: meet stephen strasburg. a guy who hasn't played a single game in the big leagues but he can fill a stadium throwing warm-up pitches. these kids spent eight hours in the car just to catch a glimpse of him. is it worth it? >> oh, yeah. >> no doubt, huh? >> no doubt. this is awesome. >> reporter: strasburg's been called the greatest pitching prospect...
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stephen hawking is saying that perhaps that does exist. so we'll delve into that. >> set that one up for you, didn't i. thank you for not going there. >> good morning, i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. >>> the head of the nation's most powerful bank is facing tough questions from lawmakers today on capitol hill. >> using goldman sachs' own e-mail senators are expected to grill the bank's ceo over billions in profits from the housing melt-down. a new abc news poll finds most americans, 65%, say they favor much stricter regulation of the financial industry. david muir has more on the goldman hearing. >> reporter: the opening salvo from goldman sachs on the eve of what's expected to be a grilling of ceo lloyd blankfein. we learned the ceo will thank taxpayers for the bank bailout, noting goldman has paid it all back with interest. blankfein will talk about the day the s.e.c. charged his bank with duping investors, selling toxic mortgages purposely bundled to fail, saying it was one of the worst days of my professional life. while blankf
stephen hawking is saying that perhaps that does exist. so we'll delve into that. >> set that one up for you, didn't i. thank you for not going there. >> good morning, i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. >>> the head of the nation's most powerful bank is facing tough questions from lawmakers today on capitol hill. >> using goldman sachs' own e-mail senators are expected to grill the bank's ceo over billions in profits from the housing melt-down. a new abc...
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>> i heard about your march to keep fear alive, stephen colbert. you will see me on the washington mall on october 30th! >> they're obviously having some fun at his expense. now, "the daily show" coincidentally will be in washington during the time of the scheduled march. or the scheduled rally there. taping shows to air october 25th and 28th. and he's also -- jon stewart, by the way, promoting a new book called "earth: the book." >> okay. a little promo there too. those guys are so good. no wonder everyone loves them so much. they're so funny. >> keep fear alive. >> there's always -- this controversy kind of pops up every couple of months when there's kind of this magazine cover, people say ooh, what did you do to it, did you doctor it. remember years ago with o.j. and "time" darkened his face during the trial and all this. anyway, kind of the reverse problem here. you guys remember the lovely actress who starred in that movie a little while back call "s"ga well, apparently, she's on te and now critics are saying, well, wait a minute, did you ligh
>> i heard about your march to keep fear alive, stephen colbert. you will see me on the washington mall on october 30th! >> they're obviously having some fun at his expense. now, "the daily show" coincidentally will be in washington during the time of the scheduled march. or the scheduled rally there. taping shows to air october 25th and 28th. and he's also -- jon stewart, by the way, promoting a new book called "earth: the book." >> okay. a little promo...
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>>> what an abc news correspondent got for visiting "the stephen c >>> i'm jealous. you know, because all these abc correspondents get to do all this cool stuff like go on these cool shows and here we are in the middle of the night. on this cool show. >> i should say to promote you this weekend you're going to be the news reader on "gma." that's a cool show. >> you're right. jake tapper was on "the colbert report." so he went on there, basically talking about this thing, you may have heard it in the last week, they're going to start fact-checking the guests on "this week." basically if it comes out of their mouth they're going to use this website, politifact.com, to make sure it's true. colbert asked him about that. >> why do you think like dick cheney or axelrod does all of your shows? like you and the meet the gregory and face the schieffer. why do you think he does all of them? >> they go into it to share their ideas and their thoughts on the important issues of the day. >> to drive home their ideas through repetition. the more something is repeated -- if you repe
>>> what an abc news correspondent got for visiting "the stephen c >>> i'm jealous. you know, because all these abc correspondents get to do all this cool stuff like go on these cool shows and here we are in the middle of the night. on this cool show. >> i should say to promote you this weekend you're going to be the news reader on "gma." that's a cool show. >> you're right. jake tapper was on "the colbert report." so he went on there,...
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stephen wampler of california, husband and father of two, has cerebral palsy. and on sunday he left his wheelchair to begin thclimb of his life. >> steve, how's it going, man? >> long day. seven hours climbing. >> reporter: steve is aiming to become the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the famed el capitan in yosemite national park. he trained for more than a year. each draining pull of that rope bringing him five inches closer to the top. but it is a towering challenge. el capitan is not just one empire state building but two. >> today is brutal. >> reporter: and today, suspended more than 1,000 feet above ground, we called him. hello, steve? hey, it's david muir in new york. how are you? >> good. and you? >> reporter: i guess you're just kind of hanging out. >> if you want to call it that. >> reporter: he's been climbing and sleeping on capitan for three days now. >> another 650 feet. so you're more than halfway there. >> yes. >> reporter: and none of this is surprising the woman who 15 years ago became steve's wife. >> at first i thought i bet he's
stephen wampler of california, husband and father of two, has cerebral palsy. and on sunday he left his wheelchair to begin thclimb of his life. >> steve, how's it going, man? >> long day. seven hours climbing. >> reporter: steve is aiming to become the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the famed el capitan in yosemite national park. he trained for more than a year. each draining pull of that rope bringing him five inches closer to the top. but it is a towering...
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stephen tschida, abc 7. >>> thousands of people across our region are in the dark this morning and they remain that way for days to come. pepco has more than 42,000 customers without power in the district. pg&e has more than 2700 customers out. and anne arundel and montgomery county. there are another 14,000 people without power. it is 4:11 and we have 20 degrees here. >> still ahead, we check out the situation at the local airports. >>> a big win for the big easy. the new orleans saints are the new super bowl champion. >>> here is a check of a latest school closings. you're watching "good morning washington." >>> breaking news, the space shuttle endeavor is on launchpad and ready to lift off for a mission to the international space station. let's listen in live as the countdown continues. >> the compression water system is activated. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 2, 1. booster ignition. left off. -- lioff. bring as of you to our celestial backyard -- bring us a view of our celestial backyard. [unintelligible] >> it is on track for its flight to the international space station. 28 seconds into the
stephen tschida, abc 7. >>> thousands of people across our region are in the dark this morning and they remain that way for days to come. pepco has more than 42,000 customers without power in the district. pg&e has more than 2700 customers out. and anne arundel and montgomery county. there are another 14,000 people without power. it is 4:11 and we have 20 degrees here. >> still ahead, we check out the situation at the local airports. >>> a big win for the big easy....
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. >>> stephen hawking is one of the greatest minds of our generation even though his body started to give out on him years ago. >> recently he was honored at the world science festival where diane sawyer caught up with him. they talked about his life and even his heavenly beliefs. >> reporter: 68-year-old stephen hawking, physicist, father, philosopher. body so disabled by als, he has the control of only one muscle -- in his right cheek. which twitches to become his voice. each twitch moves a cursor to a letter or number or pre-existing word. because he can only type one to two words a minute we told him what we wanted to ask beforehand. his words are then read by computerized voice. he was 21 years old, a university student, when suddenly he started falling for no apparent reason. with the diagnosis als, lou gehrig's disease, he said he felt he faced an execution. but then, racing against the clock, he turned to his work. he married twice, had three children, and outlived the prognosis by 43 years. treating every single day as a chance to ask a new question. >> if the universe gave
. >>> stephen hawking is one of the greatest minds of our generation even though his body started to give out on him years ago. >> recently he was honored at the world science festival where diane sawyer caught up with him. they talked about his life and even his heavenly beliefs. >> reporter: 68-year-old stephen hawking, physicist, father, philosopher. body so disabled by als, he has the control of only one muscle -- in his right cheek. which twitches to become his voice....
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o'reilly will appear on stewart's show next week, and today on capitol hill stewart's coho cohort, stephen colbert, will report on immigration reform. co colbert will be on "good morning america" talking to george stephanopoulos. >>> the tea party movement has become such a political power these days the fight for control in congress in the upcoming midterm elections could rest in the tea party's hands. >> where did this grassroots movement come from, and how did they become so popular, seemingly so fast? >> reporter: this is a tea party -- >> how would you like your tea? >> reporter: this is a tea party. and this is a tea party. so how did we get from this, to this, to this? it starts here. boston, massachusetts. 1773. colonists decide the british have more than bad feet, also bad taxes. destruction of a good drink leads to creation of a revolution. fast forward 236 years. economy in the toilet. housing in the gutter. national mood in the sewer. welcome to your new job, mr. president. >> so help me god. >> reporter: government enacts big stimulus, big auto bailout, big housing relief. it
o'reilly will appear on stewart's show next week, and today on capitol hill stewart's coho cohort, stephen colbert, will report on immigration reform. co colbert will be on "good morning america" talking to george stephanopoulos. >>> the tea party movement has become such a political power these days the fight for control in congress in the upcoming midterm elections could rest in the tea party's hands. >> where did this grassroots movement come from, and how did they...
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this is based on stephen king's book "carrie." i don't know if you've ever seen it. my parents rented if when i was little, they said don't wash watch it. i snuck in and watched it and it still freaks me out to this day. carrie is a tortured high school misfit, she has no confidence, no friends, and she has no idea she has this secret power of telekin yeesis. she's asked to the prom, and as you can see in this scene she thinks it's going this magical night where she's out with the hottest guy in the school and the kids prank her. they dump a bucket of blood on her head. and then what happens is the movie becomes so unbelievably scary you almost wet your pants. she proceeds to slaughter everyone inside the prom. she locks the door. there's such a classic iconic scene of sissy spacek drenched all in that blood. if you haven't seen it halloween is the perfect time to check it out. four kernels. it will scare you senseless. >> it was such a good scene. one movie that freaked me out too as a little boy, "the exorcist." but that's not the one i picked. this one was rough t
this is based on stephen king's book "carrie." i don't know if you've ever seen it. my parents rented if when i was little, they said don't wash watch it. i snuck in and watched it and it still freaks me out to this day. carrie is a tortured high school misfit, she has no confidence, no friends, and she has no idea she has this secret power of telekin yeesis. she's asked to the prom, and as you can see in this scene she thinks it's going this magical night where she's out with the...